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This 3 page paper explains that while employee rights are important, most rights lie with the employer. How conflicts between employee rights and the rights of the employer can be ameliorated is a large part of the discussion. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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employer also must monitor the employees for a variety of reasons. Employers are often liable for an employees actions and for example, if an employee sends out a harassing email,
the employer may be held responsible. Also, it is the case that under federal law, as well as many local laws, employees really have no expectation in respect to privacy
when it comes to computers in the workplace ("Balancing," 2001). Why should they? After all, the employer owns the equipment and pays for Internet access. The employer pays for the
services of the employee who should not really expect to be able to use the equipment for free or on their own terms. In any event, employees do tend to
make themselves at home in the workplace and so, to an extent, they expect privacy. They work long hours and may have to call their doctors or children. They have
emergencies or personal business that can only be handled during the work day. To an extent, they should have some privacy in the workplace as human beings who have lives.
While the latter view is quite popular, it is something that evolved along with a more relaxed culture. Employees should only demand a paycheck and do not have to be
accommodated for their responsibilities outside of the workplace. Still, in respect to privacy expectations in the workplace, there are six key areas of contention (Shumaker, 2003). The areas are drug
testing, surveillance, searches, background investigations, employee physicals and conversations outside of the workplace (Shumaker, 2003). Workplace searches are controversial as employees do use their lockers or desks for personal
belongings (Shumaker, 2003). Still, they are considered the property of the employer. Here again, there is no expectation of privacy (Shumaker, 2003). Employees ought to know this so that they
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